Schlagwort(e):
Sustainable living.
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Sustainability -- Economic aspects.
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Consumption (Economics).
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Quality of life.
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Electronic books.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand creative responses at several levels of consideration and action. Written by an international team of contributors, this book examines in-depth the relationship between sustainability and the good life. Drawing on wealth of theories, from social practice theory to architecture and design theory, and disciplines, such as anthropology and environmental philosophy, this volume promotes participatory action-research based approaches to encourage sustainability and wellbeing at local levels. It covers topical issues such the politics of prosperity, globalization, and indigenous notions of "the good life" and happiness". Finally it places a strong emphasis on food at the heart of the sustainability and good life debate, for instance binding the global south to the north through import and exports, or linking everyday lives to ideals within the dream of the good life, with cookbooks and shows. This interdisciplinary book provides invaluable insights for researchers and postgraduate students interested in the contribution of the environmental humanities to the sustainability debate.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
Seiten:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781317747802
Serie:
Routledge Environmental Humanities Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1864793
DDC:
306.3028/6
Sprache:
Englisch
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Enough is enough? Re-imagining an ethics and aesthetics of sustainability for the twenty-first century -- 2 The essayistic spirit of Utopia -- 3 Towards a sustainable flourishing: democracy, hedonism and the politics of prosperity -- 4 Is the good life sustainable? A three-decade study of values, happiness and sustainability in Norway -- 5 Well-being and environmental responsibility -- 6 The problem of habits for a sustainable transformation -- 7 Well-being in sustainability transitions: making use of needs -- 8 Human needs and the environment reconciled: participatory action-research for sustainable development in Peru -- 9 On the good life and rising electricity consumption in rural Zanzibar -- 10 Celebrity chefs, ethical food consumption and the good life -- 11 Follow the food: how eating and drinking shape our cities -- 12 Caged welfare: evading the good life for egg-laying hens -- 13 Being salmon, being human: notes on an ecological turn in the modern narrative tradition -- 14 Afterword: beyond the paradox of the big, bad wolf -- Index.
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